IDEA GAP: Obama hasn’t come up with one original idea yet. “With almost six years of the Obama administration under our collective belts, the time has come to acknowledge a painful truth: This is an astoundingly idea-free presidency. . . . The hard truth is that the Harvard Law Review editor and University of Chicago professor with two bestselling books to his name can’t formulate a policy to save his life, can’t oversee the implementation of the policies his administration has put in place and can’t adapt or rejigger them in a convincing way to take account of changing conditions. This has become startlingly evident even to his friends in recent days, but it actually dates back to the beginning of his tenure.”